Even the best-laid travel plans can unravel if you mix up your
terminals or end up on the wrong platform, but as always, Google is
here to make sure you find your way safely across the globe. The
search giant now aims to provide you with a preview of your journey
by mapping global transit locations with its Street View
technology.

The locations can be viewed on an interactive world map, which has pins on the all the
available locations and links out to them in Street View when
clicked. Included in the locations mapped are 16 international
airports and over 50 train stations, as well as a cable car station
Hong Kong -- which presumably will have you sorted for one end of
your journey, but leave you bewildered at the other end.

"Don't let travel logistics get you down this holiday season.
With Street View, you can see how to get where you're going faster
and easier," writes Ulf Spitzer, Google Street View Program Manager
in a blog post.

Scour the check-in counters, so you can head straight to the
right area of the terminal, plan your route from baggage claim to
your onward transportation, or if you're an economy Emirates
passenger flying on an Airbus A380 from Dubai -- yes, it's very
specific -- check out your seat.

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The only UK airport that's been mapped is Gatwick, although you
can also browse around ten London train stations and five regional
UK rail stations.

The maps engine page can also point you in the direction of
museums, although oddly enough, it doesn't appear to be marking out
tourist attractions, but museums relating to transport. In the UK
that means only the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking -- York's
rather wonderful Railway Museum, the National Maritime Museum and
the London Transport Museum all seem to have been overlooked
sadly.

It's strange that Google means for you to use this Street View
update as a holiday-planning tool, but hasn't included more tourist
attractions on the map. Google kicked off its Street View Art
Project to get inside the world's galleries and museums back in 2011, and the British Museum was one of the first UK buildings to get indoor
floorplans on Google Maps. More recently indoor Street View has
been rolled out to a greater variety of attractions including the
Warner Bros Studio Tour.

Another good indoor navigation option for those in the UK is the
MApp app, which doesn't offer panoramas, but provides indoor
maps for all sorts of attractions and points of interests across
the country, including theme parks, stadiums and all major shopping
centres.